“Storytelling in Performance”
A Workshop Sponsored by the
NYU Humanities Council
Co-directors:
Timmie (E.B.) Vitz (French), Nancy Freeman Regalado (French), Martha Hodes (History)
Co-sponsors:
The Centers for Ancient Studies and for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Deans of FAS, CAS, GSAS and FAS Dean for Humanities, the Departments of Comparative Literature, English, French, History, Italian, Music, Performance Studies,
the Medieval and Renaissance Center, the Draper Program, the Programs of Africana Studies and Irish Studies, the Tisch School of the Arts, and the NYU Medical School.
Tentative Schedule of Events 2005-2006
Note: For questions, please contact the event organizer, indicated below.
This website will be updated regularly (last updated 1/18/06)
Thursday & Friday, September 17-18, 2005
Ron Cook, harpist, performs & discusses
Marie de France’s “Chcvrefoil”
Thursday, September 17, 2:30—220 Silver Bldg.
Monday, October 17, Maison Française: 5:30-7:30 pm
“Varieties of Performance of Medieval Narrative”
&
Book Party in Celebration of the Publication of
Performing Medieval Narrative”
Performance by Benjamin Bagby, Director of Sequentia.
With performances by students in Timmie Vitz’s “Acting Medieval Literature.”
Thursday, December 15: 7 pm
Off-off-Broadway: American Place Theatre, 266 West 37th St., 22nd floor.
“Making It Real: Performing the Middle Ages”
Scenes from medieval narratives including Yvain, the epic cycle of Guillaume d’Orange, The Romance of the Rose, fabliaux, Chaucer’s “Prioress’s Tale,” Robin Hood ballads, and others; detailed program TBA. The performers—mostly students from the Tisch Drama School—work with Timmie Vitz.
Event organizer: Timmie Vitz (ebv1@nyu.edu)
Saturday, February 4, Ireland House: 10 am-evening
“Storytelling in the Lyric and Ballad Traditions:
Medieval & Early Modern Narrative Songs and Ballads,
Central European Narrative Song,
and Irish & Irish-American Ballads”
10 am-evening, Glucksman Ireland House, 1 Washington Mews, New York University. (Ireland House is located on Fifth Avenue between Washington Square Park North and Eighth Street, just north of the Washington Square Arch.)
Storytelling in the Lyric and Ballad Traditions: Medieval & Early Modern Narrative Songs and Ballads, Storytelling and Music in Eastern Europe, and Irish and English Ballads
Program (Note: No pre-registration is required; the workshop is free except for the evening concert: see below)
10:00 am-Noon: "Storytelling in the medieval and early modern lyric and ballad." Participants include Mike Beckerman (Music), Martha Rust (English), Anne Stone (CUNY Graduate Center/Queens College, Music), Timmie Vitz (French), Elizabeth Wright (French), and performers (TBA).
1:00-3:00: Storytelling and music in Eastern Europe, with Mike Beckerman (Music) and others (TBA).
3:30-5:15: The Irish and English ballad tradition, with Mick Moloney, Susan MeKeown, Dan and Bonnie Milner, and others.
8:00-Concert: "The Irish and English Ballad," with Mick Moloney, John Roberts, Tony Barrand, Susan McKeown, Barry O'Neill, and John Doyle. Donation $10 (entry free to members of Ireland House and New York University students). To reserve an (open-seating) place in advance send, by January 30, a $10 check made out to "New York University" to: Prof. Vitz, French Dept., 19 University Place, #622, New York 10003. NYU students and members of Ireland House who wish to reserve a place may contact Anna: abv215@nyu.edu, subject line "Ballad event." Tickets will also be available at the door; cash only. The door will open at 7:15 pm.
This event is co-organized by Prof. Vitz (ebv1@nyu.edu; 212 998-8724), Mick Moloney and Mike Beckerman (NYU Music), with the co-sponsorship of Glucksman Ireland House, and the departments of French and Music.
Monday, March 6, 2006, Maison Française: 7 pm,
Growing Your Own: Fashioning a Modern-Day Performance from Old Sources, A Demonstration-Talk by French soprano and interpreter of early vocal music Anne Azema with Joel Cohen and Shira Kammen, viellist
Anne Azema and Shira Kammen are featured performers with The Boston Camerata, directed by Joel Cohen
NOTE: This demonstration-talk follows the Camerata's concert performance of the North American premiere of their program "Chanson du Désert: The Heroic Deeds of Guillaume d'Orange" at the Cloisters on Sunday March 5.
This Demonstration-Talk is FREE and Open to the Public. No pre-registration necessary.
Event organizer: Nancy Regalado (nancy.regalado@nyu.edu), co-sponsored by Music, French, and the Maison Française
Friday, March 31, 2:00 PM, The Great Room, 19 University Place, First Floor
Amy Shuman: "Speaking from Experience: Storytelling in Everyday Life"
Tuesday, April 25, 3:00 PM, 19 University Place, Room 222
Performing Medieval Fabliaux
4:00 PM, We move to Washington Square Park for an outdoors performance
New York University students perform "The Butcher of Abbeville"